Chapter 44 Division Rewards
"What's the matter?" Gu Qiuyue was full of questions. After asking, she was stunned. She subconsciously touched her flat belly and counted the days... her period was indeed delayed for almost ten days.
Previously, because of her parents' rehabilitation, the Zhou family farce, the translation task, Zheng Chuncao's matter... one thing after another, she didn't notice anything unusual about her body.
Once this thought arose, it was like a stone thrown into the lake of the heart, creating ripples and, with a hint of hidden expectation, diluting the gloom of the past few days.
She and Xie Shiyu did not deliberately use contraception. Whether they would have a child or not was up to fate. However, since there had been no child, they were not in a hurry. Some gossipers in the family compound would gossip about her in private, but with Zhou Lihua in front of them, no one dared to get in front of her.
In the evening, Xie Shiyu came back early and saw that Gu Qiuyue was in no better spirits than during the day, so he insisted on taking her to the clinic.
Gu Qiuyue quickly grabbed him and said, "It's okay. The doctors at the clinic are off work now. It will be the same if you go tomorrow." She didn't think she was sick. She didn't react at first, but now that Sun Juan reminded her, the more she thought about it, the more it seemed like she was sick.
But Xie Shiyu was not convinced. "How can we delay dealing with illness? There is a doctor on duty in the clinic. Let's go and see him. It will put my mind at ease, okay?" He held Gu Qiuyue's face and coaxed her gently.
"Oh, it's really nothing. I promised you I'd go early tomorrow morning, okay?" Gu Qiuyue said, "I'm hungry now. Go cook for me. I want to eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes."
Seeing that she was willing to eat, Xie Shiyu felt more relieved. "Okay, I'll go cook, but we have to agree that if you feel uncomfortable at night, you must tell me."
The next morning, Xie Shiyu asked for a morning off from the army and accompanied Gu Qiuyue to the division hospital. The examination results came out soon: the pregnancy was about six weeks.
Holding the thin test report, Gu Qiuyue walked out of the hospital building. The warm sunlight shone on her body. She looked down at the conclusion on the report, her fingers gently brushing over the words. A strange feeling, a mixture of tenderness and strength, slowly filled her heart.
This is her and Shi Yu's child... After going through so many ups and downs, a brand new, hopeful little life is quietly growing in her body.
Deputy Head Xie, who was usually calm and composed, paused for several seconds when the test results came out. He then confirmed with suppressed excitement and disbelief, "...Really? Doctor? My wife is pregnant?"
"Yes," the doctor nodded with a smile. He had seen many new fathers like this. "Your wife is in good health, but after all, she still has to carry a little life. She needs to be given the right nutrition, but not too much. Otherwise, the fetus will be too large, which will increase the risk during childbirth."
Xie Shiyu nodded as he listened, then he took out a small notebook from somewhere and said, "Doctor, is there anything else I should pay attention to? Please tell me more."
The doctor had a very good impression of this new father and gave him a few more instructions.
On the way from the military hospital to the family compound, Xie Shiyu wanted to hold Gu Qiuyue in his arms. The way he carefully supported her, as if she was a fragile glass doll, made Gu Qiuyue laugh and cry.
According to Xie Shiyu's suggestion, since she was pregnant, she should quit her job in the Propaganda Department, but Gu Qiuyue refused. It was not that she valued this job very much, but there was Sun Juan in the office who loved to share gossip, and it was quite comfortable to drink tea and listen to gossip every day.
"Okay then, if you are tired, you must listen to me and quit your job." Xie Shiyu is now more accommodating to Gu Qiuyue, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he listens to her and does whatever she says.
"Okay, but I'm not really tired." Gu Qiuyue translated for another half an hour after dinner and then yawned, "I'm just more sleepy than usual." She went to the bathroom in the back to wash up and then went to bed.
Before Xie Shiyu could tell the good news to both sets of parents, the reward from the division headquarters arrived first. A new building was built in the family compound, and the division leaders wanted to give one to Gu Qiuyue as a reward for her translation work for the division headquarters.
But when Xie Shiyu brought the news back, he found that Gu Qiuyue was not as happy as he expected. "What's wrong, wife, don't you like the apartment? There are so many people who want the family compound and can't get it, especially since it's newly built."
"I heard from Sun Juan that the apartment building isn't that great either. The kids upstairs make so much noise every night that she and Captain Sun can't sleep well at all." Gu Qiuyue said, "And I heard that the stoves in apartment buildings are now placed in the hallways, which makes cooking inconvenient. The most important thing is that there are no partitions in the apartment buildings, so sometimes you can hear what the couple next door is doing in bed. And the bathroom is shared. I don't want to live in an apartment building."
Xie Shiyu didn't think too much about it, but he heard several comrades complain during training, saying that the house was too small and if they farted, everyone in the room could smell it.
"So we'll still live here?" Xie Shiyu asked tentatively, "If there's a yard bigger than ours, would you like to move in?"
Gu Qiuyue's eyes lit up, "That's possible." Then she hesitated again, "But I'm used to living here. I'm familiar with Mrs. Zhang next door and Mrs. Chen across the street. If I move to another place, I'll have to get familiar with everyone around me again. It's troublesome."
Xie Shiyu knew that his wife didn't like to socialize with others, so he smiled and said, "The new yard is right behind Mrs. Chen's house. It used to be the yard of Captain Leng's house. He was transferred to another military region for work reasons some time ago, and that yard became empty. He has four rooms, a lot of them, with kitchens and toilets on both sides, and a well in the yard.
If our child is born in the future, we will definitely invite our mother to live with us for a while, and we won’t be worried about not having enough space.”
Thinking of the last time Gu Qiuhan came, he could only curl up on the camp bed in the study in grievance, Gu Qiuyue's heart was moved. She also knew where the former captain Leng's yard was. It was just behind Chen Cuifen's house. It was a yard that looked quite new. It would be nice if she could really live there.
"If the house is so good, why hasn't anyone applied for it?" Gu Qiuyue couldn't understand.
Xie Shiyu knew his wife was willing when he heard it, and said with a smile: "The new building is almost completed, everyone wants to live in a building!"
After confirming his wife's thoughts, Xie Shiyu acted quickly. He didn't know how he negotiated with his superiors, but he soon took the key to the yard home.
Gu Qiuyue stood at the gate of the yard and was very satisfied with the layout of the yard. Not only were there more rooms than her previous one, but the yard also had a front and back yard. The only flaw was that the yard wall was surrounded by a bamboo fence, which made it a little less private.
Xie Shiyu directed several young Future Warriors to move all the furniture from their home. The house was quickly decorated. He came to Gu Qiuyue and asked, "How is it? Do you like it?"
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